hide Sorting

You can sort these results in two ways:

By entity
Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
By position (current method)
As the entities appear in the document.

You are currently sorting in ascending order. Sort in descending order.

hide Most Frequent Entities

The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.

Entity Max. Freq Min. Freq
Horace Greeley 1,006 2 Browse Search
Londonderry, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) 71 1 Browse Search
Westhaven (Illinois, United States) 56 0 Browse Search
Henry Clay 54 0 Browse Search
United States (United States) 54 0 Browse Search
New Hampshire (New Hampshire, United States) 50 0 Browse Search
James Watson Webb 46 0 Browse Search
Amos Bliss 44 2 Browse Search
New England (United States) 44 0 Browse Search
Bayard Taylor 42 0 Browse Search
View all entities in this document...

Browsing named entities in a specific section of James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley. Search the whole document.

Found 233 total hits in 49 results.

1 2 3 4 5
Orange, N. J. (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
by a company of adventurers from London, and the county was settled by a colony from Argyleshire in Scotland, who were thenceforth called Scotch-Irish. Of what stuff these Scottish colonists were made, their after-history amply and gloriously shows. The colony took root and flourished in Londonderry. In 1689, the year of the immortal siege, the city was an important fortified town of twenty-seven thousand inhabitants, and the county was proportionally populous and productive. William of Orange had reached the British throne. James II. returning from France had landed in Ireland, and was making an effort to recover his lost inheritance. The Irish Catholics were still loyal to him, and hastened to rally round his banner. But Ulster was Protestant and Presbyterian; the city of Londonderry was Ulster's stronghold, and it was the chief impediment in the way of James' proposed descent upon Scotland. With what resolution and daring the people of Londonderry, during the ever-memorabl
St. Peter (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
withdrawing the minds of the young ladies from the same. At length, the minister, who had both fought and preached in Londonderry at home, and feared neither man, beast, devil, nor red-coat, addressed the officer thus: Ye are a braw lad; ye ha'e a braw suit of claithes, and we ha'e aa seen them; ye may sit doun. The officer subsided instantly, and old Dreadnought went on with his sermon as though nothing had happened. The same clergyman once began a sermon on the vain self-confidence of St. Peter, with the following energetic remarks: Just like Peter, aye, mair forrit than wise, ganging swaggering about wia a sword at his side; ana a puir hand he made of it when he came to the trial; for he only cut off a chiel's lug, ana he ought to haa split down his head. On another occasion, he is said to have opened on a wellknown text in this fashion: I can do all things; ay, can yo Paul? I'll bet ye a dollar oa that (placing a dollar on the desk). But stop! let's see what else Paul says:
Londonderry, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ration to New England settlement of Londonderry, New Hampshire the Scotch-Irish introduce the cultws. The colony took root and flourished in Londonderry. In 1689, the year of the immortal siege, t; as early as the year 1748, the linens of Londonderry had so high a reputation in the colonies, ts from being fraudulently sold for those of Londonderry manufacture. A town meeting was held in thattack of Indians. These Scotch-Irish of Londonderry were a very peculiar people. They were Scer the Revolution that a chaise was seen in Londonderry, and even then it excited great wonder, andIt was Pat. Larkin, a Scotch-Irishman, near Londonderry, who, when he was accused of being a Catholrelated as a fact, that the first pastor of Londonderry, being informed one evening that an individup his prisoners, who were escorted back to Londonderry in triumph. There were remarkably few tories in Londonderry. The town was united almost as one man on the side of Independence, and sent, it[14 more...]
Scotia (search for this): chapter 1
the Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire. Londonderry in Ireland the siege emigration to New England settlement of Londond Connecticut, and in part by emigrants from the north of Ireland. The latter were called Scotch-Irish, for a reason which how. Ulster, the most northern of the four provinces of Ireland, has been, during the last two hundred and fifty years, sung, there was a rebellion of the Catholics in the north of Ireland. Upon its suppression, Ulster, embracing the six northernsh throne. James II. returning from France had landed in Ireland, and was making an effort to recover his lost inheritance.ought their spinning and weaving implements with them from Ireland, and their industry was not once interrupted by an attack nnot forget that intolerance and persecution—especially in Ireland—are by no means exclusively Catholic errors and crimes. Who persecutes in Ireland now? On what principle of Christian toleration are the poor man's pig and potatoes wrested from him
Amoskeag (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
Londonderry were a very peculiar people. They were Scotch-Irish in character and in name; of Irish vivacity, generosity, and daring; Scotch in frugality, industry, and resolution; a race in whose composition nature seems, for once, to have kindly blended the qualities that render men interesting with those that render them prosperous. Their habits and their minds were simple. They lived, for many years after the settlement began to thrive, upon the fish which they caught at the falls of Amoskeag, upon game, and upon such products of the soil as beans, potatoes, samp, and barley. It is only since the year 1800 that tea and coffee, those ridiculous and effeminating drinks, came into anything like general use among them. It was not till some time after the Revolution that a chaise was seen in Londonderry, and even then it excited great wonder, and was deemed an unjustifiable extravagance. Shoes, we are told, were little worn in the summer, except on Sundays and holidays; and then t
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
igration to New England settlement of Londonderry, New Hampshire the Scotch-Irish introduce the culture of the potato and the manufacture of linen character of the Scotch-Irish their simplicity love of fun stories of the early clergymen Traits in the Scotch-Irish character zeal of the Londonderrians in the Revolution Horace Greeley's allusion to his Scotch-Irish ancestry. New Hampshire, the native State of Horace Greeley, was settled in part by colonists from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and in part by emigrants from the north of Ireland. The latter were called Scotch-Irish, for a reason which a glance at their history will show. Ulster, the most northern of the four provinces of Ireland, has been, during the last two hundred and fifty years, superior to the rest in wealth and civilization. The cause of its superiority is known. About the year 1612, when James I. was king, there was a rebellion of the Catholics in the north of Ireland. Upon its suppression, Ulster
Scotland (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1
ravages of the recent war. The land was divided into shares, the largest of which did not exceed two thousand acres. Colonists were invited over from England and Scotland. The natives were expelled from their fastnesses in the hills, and forced to settle upon the plains. Some efforts, it appears, were made to teach them arts anked and razed during the rebellion. The city was now rebuilt by a company of adventurers from London, and the county was settled by a colony from Argyleshire in Scotland, who were thenceforth called Scotch-Irish. Of what stuff these Scottish colonists were made, their after-history amply and gloriously shows. The colony took roster was Protestant and Presbyterian; the city of Londonderry was Ulster's stronghold, and it was the chief impediment in the way of James' proposed descent upon Scotland. With what resolution and daring the people of Londonderry, during the ever-memorable siege of that city, fought and endured for Protestantism and freedom, the
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
of New Hampshire. Londonderry in Ireland the siege emigration to New England settlement of Londonderry, New Hampshire the Scotch-Irish introduce the cuhen, therefore, in 1617, a son of one of the leading clergyman returned from New England with glowing accounts of that plantation, a furor of emigration arose in theess to His Excellency, the Right Honorable Colonel Samuel Smith, Governor of New England, which assured his Excellency of our sincere and hearty inclination to transthat the potato was first cultivated, and there that linen was first made in New England. The English colonists at that day appear to have been unacquainted with thor and pathos of the Irish, and then grown wild in the woods among their own New England mountains. There never existed a people at once so jovial and so religiountributed more money to the cause, than any other town of equal resources in New England. Here are a few of the town-meeting votes of the first months of the war: V
Windham (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
empted to settle in Worcester; but as they were Irish and Presbyterians, such a storm of prejudice against them arose among the enlightened Congregationalists of that place, that they were obliged to flee before it, and seek refuge in the less populous places of Massachusetts. Sixteen families, after many months of tribulation and wandering, selected for their permanent abode a tract twelve miles square, called Nutfield, which now embraces the townships of Londonderry, Derry and Windham, in Rockingham county, New Hamp shire. The land was a free gift from the king, in consideration of the services rendered his throne by the people of Londonderry in the defence of their city. To each settler was assigned a farm of one hundred and twenty acres, a house lot, and an out lot of sixty acres. The lands of the men who had personally served during the siege, were exempted from taxation, and were known down to the period of the revolution as the Exempt Farms. The settlement of Londonderry att
Bennington, Vt. (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
ed of the same, as far as it will go; provided he produces a gun of his own, in good order, and is willing to go against the enemy, and promises not to waste any of the powder, only in self-defense; and provided, also, that he show twenty good bullets to suit his gun, and six good flints. In 1777 the town gave a bounty of thirty pounds for every man who enlisted for three years. All the records and traditions of the revolutionary period breathe unity and determination. Stark, the hero of Bennington, was a Londonderrian. Such were the Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire; of such material were the maternal ancestors of Horace Greeley composed; and from his maternal ancestors he derived much that distinguishes him from men in general. In the New Yorker for August 28, 1841, he alluded to his Scotch-Irish origin in a characteristic way. Noticing Charlotte Elizabeth's Siege of Derry, he wrote: We do not like this work, and we choose to say so frankly. What is the use of reviving and ag
1 2 3 4 5